09/11/2014

POST-PRODUCTION OF THE APES: Dawn Nominated

From The Hollywood Reporter: "Oscar visual effects contenders Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Maleficent will compete against last year’s Academy Awards juggernaut Gravity and Oscar nominee The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug at the 9th annual Hollywood Post Alliance Awards. The HPA announced the nominees in its 12 craft categories on Wednesday. The winners will be revealed during a ceremony on Nov. 6 at the Skirball Cultural Center. The entry period ran from September 2013 to September 2014, meaning that some of last year’s Oscar nominees and winners will go up against some of this year’s hopefuls. ...In the feature VFX category, Weta Digital and its senior VFX supervisor, four-time Oscar winner Joe Letteri, are double nominees for Apes and the Hobbit sequel." What follows is a breakdown of the Award categories in which Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is nominated." Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is nominated in the category of Outstanding Visual Effects - Feature Film.